Ottawa, sentence 173
From Wikipedia, «Ottawa», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
During part of the winter season the Ottawa section of the canal forms the world's largest skating rink, thereby providing both a recreational venue and a 7.8 km transportation path to downtown for ice skaters (from Carleton University to the Senate of Canada building).
Who acts: Ottawa section · What happens: form, skate, provide, section · To what, where: largest skating rink, recreational venue, canal
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Ottawa». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ottawa section), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | During | during | ADP | _ | 2 part | case |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forms | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 season | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 season | det |
| 5 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | compound |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 part | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 section | det |
| 8 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 section | compound |
| 9 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forms | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 canal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 canal | det |
| 12 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 section | nmod |
| 13 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rink | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 world | case |
| 17 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 rink | amod |
| 18 | skating | skate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 rink | amod |
| 19 | rink | rink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forms | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 providing | punct |
| 21 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 22 providing | advmod |
| 22 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 forms | advcl |
| 23 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 26 venue | cc:preconj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 venue | det |
| 25 | recreational | recreational | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 venue | amod |
| 26 | venue | venue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 providing | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 path | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 path | det |
| 29 | 7.8 | 7.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 km | nummod |
| 30 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 transportation | compound |
| 31 | transportation | transportation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 path | compound |
| 32 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 venue | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 downtown | case |
| 34 | downtown | downtown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 providing | obl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 skaters | case |
| 36 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 skaters | compound |
| 37 | skaters | skater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 providing | obl |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 University | punct |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 University | case |
| 40 | Carleton | Carleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 University | compound |
| 41 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 skaters | appos |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Senate | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Senate | det |
| 44 | Senate | Senate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 University | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 building | case |
| 46 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 building | compound |
| 47 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 University | nmod |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 41 University | punct |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | the Ottawa section of the canal | the world's largest skating rink | during part of the winter season | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rink=Theme | |||
| 2 | skate | gerund | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | provide | gerund | the Ottawa section of the canal not said here | a recreational venue and a transportation path | to downtown; for ice skaters; thereby property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition venue=Theme for skater=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | section | the canal | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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